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Celtic festival celebrates Manx music and dance
BBC via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoIt attracts both locals and visitors from further afield, this year including people travelling from as far afield as Switzerland and the USA. Ms Joughin...
Celtic festival celebrates Manx music and dance
BBC News· 21 hours agoYn Chruinnaght, which means "the gathering" in Manx, is an annual week-long event which has now been running for 47 years. Running until Sunday, it...
How a Drum Line Director Spends Her Sundays
New York Times· 22 hours agoStacy Kovacs, who founded Fogo Azul NYC, totes her drums around the city, fends off her cat and never watches TV. For most of her life, Stacy Kovacs has...
The Taylor Swift Songbook Trail is a ploy to get kids into the V&A - I hope it works
The i newspaper online iNews· 24 hours agoThe V&A’s advert for a Taylor Swift adviser must be the most widely shared job posting of this year....
Vale Ray Lawler: the playwright who changed the sound of Australian theatre
The Conversation· 1 day agoRay Lawler, who died this week at 103, was one of the artists responsible for establishing the first non-commercial repertory theatre in Australia – the Union Repertory Theatre Company, now ...
Olympic opening ceremony through the streets and sights of Paris was a French feast
The Globe and Mail· 1 day agoOn Friday evening, organizers of the Paris Games blew the doors off the traditional stadium-based...
She conquered Everest 10 times - and escaped an abusive marriage
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 1 day agoWhispering goodbye to Shiny, sleeping in a nearby tent in base camp, the climb begins at night, by...
Lhakpa Sherpa: Everest record holder shares her domestic abuse turmoil
BBC News· 1 day agoThis article contains descriptions of domestic violence which some readers may find distressing....
Paris dazzles with a rainy Olympics opening ceremony on the Seine River
MPR News· 1 day agoA hot-air balloon brought an Olympic ring of fire into a rainy sky and singer Celine Dion belted...
Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, Aya Nakamura: set for Olympics opening ceremony?
The Nation· 1 day agoOne of the world’s biggest-selling artists, pop queen Lady Gaga -- real name Stefani Germanotta -- brings extravagant showmanship and costumes to the stage, along with her infectious electropop ...
